Dhaka, Aug. 18 -- Experts have blamed the lack of policy, syndication by tanners, their 'cash crunch' and a fall in the demand for leather products for the unprecedented fall in the prices of rawhide of sacrificed animals this year.

The drastic fall in rawhide prices forced seasonal traders in different districts, including Dhaka, Chattogram, Narayanganj, Narsingdi, Sylhet, Rajshahi and Khulna, to throw away thousands of pieces of rawhide of cows, goats and buffaloes during Eid-ul-Azha.

Many also buried the rawhide under the ground failing to get the expected prices while others sold it at throwaway prices.

Talking to UNB, a number of seasonal traders said cowhide was sold between Tk 100 and Tk 200 a piece this year whereas the usual p...